Ring of Time

I finally did it! This is the book that I have been writing for....years. It is a fantasy about a young girl who is the apprentice to a wizard. When the wizard disappears, she is left to finish her training alone and also do a quest. This is about that quest. She meets several people (and others) along the way.

If you want to read the book it is available on Amazon Kindle (there are several books with this title, so type in my name if you cannot find it). It is available in paperback, also from Amazon.

Double wedding ring star quilt

                                    Just finished this quilt. Took me about 6 months to do it

                                                 Quilting took a few weeks. Here is a detail.

deck garden

Things are blooming on my deck

And Merlin is enjoying some sunshine -
Morning nap                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Afternoon nap

Slough

I took this picture of Catching Slough near my house a few years ago on a morning walk. Thought I had lost the photo when my computer crashed but found a hard copy yesterday when I cleaned out a cabinet. If you look real close, there is an egret on the right tip of land jutting out into the water.

pine needle basket #3

Just finished this pine needle basket. I tried a different stitch and it was working until I got further apart with the stitches. The needles began sticking out more and more. So I changed stitches to an X. Parts of it look better than others, but I really like the base that I found online.

Pine needle bowl

I just finished my second pine needle basket - I think it is really a bowl. Read in a booklet that one could finish them with Mod Podge, so I tried it. REALLY SMELLY!!!! But it made the bowl very sturdy. Now all I need to do is figure out how to make them perfectly round.

wedding ring quilt

Getting ready to do some quilting.

Didn't work ....have to take my machine in to be fixed :(

Now I find out it was the thread-cannot use cotton to do free motion quilting, have to use polyester.